I think by the time you’re grown you’re as happy as you’re goin to be. You’ll have good times and bad times, but in the end you’ll be about as happy as you was before. Or as unhappy. I’ve knowed people that just never did get the hang of it.
CORMAC MCCARTHYThe closest bonds we will ever know are bonds of grief. The deepest community one of sorrow.
More Cormac McCarthy Quotes
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It is personal. That’s what an education does. It makes the world personal.
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The trouble with a liar is he can’t remember what he said.
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Notions of chance and fate are the preoccupations of men engaged in rash undertakings.
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Ever step you take is forever.
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Words pale and lose their savor while pain is always new.
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And in the dream I knew that he was goin on ahead and that he was fixin to make a fire somewhere out there in all that dark and all that cold and I knew that whenever I got there he would be there. And then I woke up.
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You think when you wake up in the mornin yesterday don’t count. But yesterday is all that does count. What else is there? Your life is made out of the days it’s made out of. Nothin else.
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Best way to live in California is to be from somewheres else.
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Deep in each man is the knowledge that something knows of his existence. Something knows, and cannot be fled nor hid from.
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She said that these were things all women knew yet seldom spoke of. Lastly she said that if women were drawn to rash men it was only that in their secret hearts they knew that a man who would not kill for them was of no use at all.
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By day the banished sun circles the earth like a grieving mother with a lamp.
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Remember her hair in the morning before it was pinned, black, rampant, savage with loveliness. As if she slept in perpetual storm.
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I always thought when I got older that God would sort of come into my life in some way. He didn’t. I don’t blame him. If I was him I’d have the same opinion about me that he does.
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Men of God and men of war have strange affinities.
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It is supposed to true that those who do not know history are condemned to repeat it. I don’t believe knowing can save us. What is constant in history is greed and foolishness and love of blood.
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